{"id":3954,"date":"2010-10-29T12:42:38","date_gmt":"2010-10-29T19:42:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.verbal007.com\/?p=753"},"modified":"2010-10-29T12:42:38","modified_gmt":"2010-10-29T19:42:38","slug":"the-troll-hunter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/the-troll-hunter","title":{"rendered":"The Troll Hunter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a bit like District 9, but with Trolls and in Norway instead of South Africa. \u00a0It&#8217;s also a bit like Blaire Witch, but you actually get to see the beasts.<\/p>\n<p>The first realistic creature animation to be done in Norway, the film had a budget of 3 million dollars, a quarter of which was set aside for the visual effects.<\/p>\n<p>CGSociety has a <a href=\"http:\/\/features.cgsociety.org\/story_custom.php?story_id=5929\">Production Focus article on the film<\/a>.  The also link up to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=CsslXByboUo\">VFX breakdown of the film on YouTube<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"640\" height=\"385\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/vy2nAOdBUlw?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/vy2nAOdBUlw?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"640\" height=\"385\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a &#8220;Rig to Render&#8221; video of one of the trolls.  I think I see Houdini being used.  \ud83d\ude09<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/17613699?portrait=0&amp;color=ff9933\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/17613699\">Troll Hunter VFX &#8211; Ringlefinch from Rig to Render<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/superrune\">Rune Spaans<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a bit like District 9, but with Trolls and in Norway instead of South Africa. \u00a0It&#8217;s also a bit like Blaire Witch, but you actually get to see the beasts. The first realistic creature animation to be done in Norway, the film had a budget of 3 million dollars, a quarter of which was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3954"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3954\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}